Director – Corporate Strategy

Director – Corporate Strategy

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required (MBA strongly preferred)
• 8+ years of strategy experience either internally or with a Top-Tier consulting firm
• Strategic mindset with an ability to think broadly, refine questions, and develop analytical frameworks
• Excellent technical skills to coach teams to analyze large quantities of data in an error-free manner
• Outstanding project and people management skills
• Experience managing large teams and partnering with multiple business functions
• High Emotional Intelligence and verbal and written communication skills that educate and influence senior leaders; ability to ‘manage up’
• Love of Consumer Packaged Goods and our brands
• Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences; foreign language skills highly desired

Responsibilities

• Employ solution-oriented mindset to help solve an array of PepsiCo’s most challenging, business critical, topics
• Translate business problems into structured projects that you will lead in end-to-end delivery against key objectives, from hypothesis development to final materials
• Lead analytical workstreams – identify and deconstruct business issues, and develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks to conduct analyses and solve critical business issues with minimal oversight from functional leaders
• Demonstrate strong leadership and influence management skills, including the ability to challenge the status quo
• Lead & manage teams to deliver on-time and complete deliverables; ensuring recommendations are grounded in fact and actionable
• Invest in the professional development of direct reports including coaching, performance reviews, and long-term career guidance
• Build executive-ready project deliverables
• Assist in the planning and execution of key enterprise projects (e.g., Enterprise Strategic Planning, PepsiCo Growth Model, etc.)
• Execute against time-sensitive requests from PepsiCo’s Executive Committee, Strategy Leadership, and cross-functional business partners
• Provide thought partnership to Corporate Strategy leadership team, business partners and Senior Executives on a broad range of business-critical topics
• Maintain an external mindset, including staying on top of consumer, competitive, and macroeconomic / geopolitical trends
• Contribute to capability building for the entire Global Strategy function (e.g. Recruiting, Training, Knowledge Management, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Foreign language skills highly desired